Water, fire, and germ proof composition



O6. COMPOSITIONS,

OATlNG OR Pl AS C at e'ral building PM, a, 1923.

' UNITED STATES Cross Reference 1,454,780 PATENT OFFICE.

Examiner WALTER 3. mm, 01' SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGHOB TO CON-O-LITE CORPO BA- T108, 0] CORTLAND, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

WATER, FIRE, Gm PROOF COMPOSITION.

Ho Drawing.

certain new and useful Improvements in Water Fire, and Germ Proof Com ositions,

of WlllCh the following is a spec' cation.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a composition from which articles may be formed in plastic state which when hardened is light in weight and possesses great density and stren h.

It is further designed to prom e a cement composition especially adapted for the manufacture of rave vaults, burial caskets and boxes as wel as other articles such as mantles, trays, arches, table tops and genpurposes.

-M invention broadly provides a form of arti cial stone for general construction work and having about one-half the weight and greater tensile strength and density than concrete as well as having equal or reater time and wear resisting quahties an being water, acid, and germ roof.

It being understoo that my composition is prepared in plastic form for use in molds and the like and becomes set or hardened during the curing operation similar to other concrete and cement processes such, for instance, as making building blocks. M com position includes a dry pulverized b0 and a liquid whereby the plastic material is formed for use, both the liquid and dry 00.1- stituents being particularly formed or compounded of the specific ingredientshereinafter enumerated.

The dry ingredients are as follows:

150 lbs. chemically treated pulverized coke,

100 lbs. high test cement.

The entire batch being mostly dependent .in quantity upon the dry ingredients, any

amount of the composition me be formed that is desired, the same including as above noted, three parts of coke to two parts of cement so that the dry ingredients compounded alone forms a mass in which pulverized coke constitutes three-fifths or sixty per cent, of the weight and cement two-fifths or forty, per cent. of the weight.

The best high testcommercial cement is the most practicable while the coke is of n.

suitable grade being crushed during a spraying of hydrofluosilicic acid which dampens Application filed September 29, 1921; Serial Io. 504,109.

or coats all of the particles of coke. The crushed and dampened coke is then passed through a drum or cylinder until the acid has been absorbed by the coke and this treatment hardens or glazes the coke which still retains its lightness in weight.

The chemically treated coke and the cement, both in pulverized form are then placed in a drum mixer and thoroughly comingled.

The liquid constituent'is compounded as follows: i

-2 gallon vegetable soap free from animal I oils.

1} gallons ammonia- 1 gallon liquid water glass 20 gallons water These four ingredients provide the soapammonia liquid in the preparation of two gallons to one-half the quantity or one gallon of water glass with ten times the mantity or twenty gallons of water for m king a liquid batch of twenty-three galions for use with the dry constitutent.

The soap being a vegetable product, when mixed with ammonia in the ratio of three parts soap to five parts of ammonia forms a'milky solution for waterproofing the dry ingredients and rendering the composition waterproof.

tween the ingredients when mixed together to limiting or retarding the chemical action to the extent of preventing the cement from burnin or fusin In t e liquid-batch of twenty-three gallons, the amount of twenty gallons of water' and two gallons of the soap-ammonia solution and one gallon of liquid water glass are well mixed together forming the liquid constituent of the composition. p

A quantity of this well mixed li uid stituent is then mixed with the ilry stituent of cement and coke for brin the mass or batch to a suitable plastic orm GOD- OOII- for placing in molds after the usual manner.

This plastic composition is allowed to remain in the molds for twenty-four hours or until it initially becomes set and is then immersed in water for forty-oi ht hours and thereafter taken from the mol for the purpose of curing.

It will be apparent that many articles A such as building constructions, furniture and composition as well as ornamental work and wherever density, strength and lightness are essential, In the dry constituent, there may be added crushed slag or pulverized grit and while the specific ingredients and the exact proportions thereof enumerated are believed to be the best for carrying out the objects of my invention, it Wlll nevertheless be understood that slight variations therein may be had without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

What is claimed as new is:

1. As an ingredient for artificial stone, pulverized coke having its particles coated with hydrofluosilicic acid.

2. An artificial stone composition including cement, particles of coke coated with hydrofluosilicic acid and a moistening constituent.

3. An artificial stone composition comprising cement, finely pulverized coke having its particles coated with hydrofluosilicic acid, and a moistening ingredient.

4. An artificial stone composition comprising cement, finely pulverized coke havm its particles coated with hydrofluosilicic acid, and an alkaline moistening constituent.

5. An artificial stone composition com- '30 prising cement, finely pulverized coke having its particles coated with hydrofluosilicic acid in the proportions of 100 pounds of cement to 150 pounds of the coated coke, and a moistening ingredient. I

6. An artificial stone composition comrising cement, finely pulverized coke havmg its particles coated with hydrofiuosilicic acid in the proportions of 100 ounds of cement to 150 pounds of thetcoate coke, and an alkaline moistening ingredient.-

7. An artificial stone composition comprising cement, pulverized coke having its particles coated with hydrofluosilicic acid, vegetable soap, ammonia, liquid water glass, and water.

8. An artificial stone composition comprisin cement, pulverized coke having its partic es coated with hydrofiuosilicic acid, vegetable soap, ammonia, liquid water glass, andwater in the proportions of 150 pounds of treated coke, 100 pounds of cement, g of a gallon of soap, 1} gallons of ammonia, 1 gallon of liquid water glass, and 20 gallons of water.

9. That method of forming an artificial stone which consists in crushing coke and simultaneousl spraying the same with hydrofiuosilicicaci mixing with 150 pounds of the WALTER .E. WILLETT, 

